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Martin, Newton, Pike, "Washington, Carroll, Eipley, Delaware, Clinton, 

 Greene, Parker, Miami, Scott, Spencer, Yermilliou, Sullivan, Gibson, 

 and Ohio. 



Ohio appears to have been nearly exempt from hog cholera. At a 

 distillery in Lucas from 300 to 400 head died ; about one-fifth of the 

 swine brought into Greene from Indiana for fattening have been at- 

 tacked, and a few cases are reported in Jefferson, Holmes, Warren, Fair- 

 field, and Franklin. 



The swine of Michigan are reported healthy, only one county, Cass, 

 returning losses, which have amounted to one or two hundred in a 

 local it3^ 



A disease of the throat is reported in Green County, Wisconsin, where 

 it has prevailed to a limited extent. " The first appearance would be a 

 dark spot or spots on one or both sides of the throat, and the hog being 

 unable to eat. It has usually proved fatal in from 24 to 48 hours; some 

 call it diphtheria." A few cases of hog cholera are mentioned in Dane 

 County, and several fattening hogs in Washington have died suddenly 

 from some unknown cause. 



Of twenty counties reporting in Minnesota, Meeker only presents 

 evidences of disease, in which forty pigs were lost, " caused by filth and 

 improper food, and not from any cause beyond the pen in which they 

 were confined." 



Small loss is reported in Iowa ; in Louisa County, 25 per cent. ; 150 

 head in Lucas ; 100 head in Clarke ; and in Black Hawk, Lee, Wayne, 

 Fremont, Dallas, Jasper, Tama, Appanoose, Madison, and Bremer, a few 

 cases are mentioned. Only Xemaha and Cass, in Nebraska, rejiort losses, 

 and Leavenworth, in Kansas. 



EXTEACTS FEOM COEEESPOXDEXCE. 



EXPEKDIENTS WITH SEEDS, ETC. 



A correspondent, writing from Morgan County, Illinois, says : 



Mj experience this last year with carrots, and especially with ichite Silesian sugar 

 ieets, for stock of all kinds, has both surprised and gratified nie. The middle of May 

 last, I had a piece of ground on which apple seeds had failed. I sowed a part of it (lesa 

 than one-quarter of an acre) with beet seeds, with a common drill and weeder, without 

 replowing the ground, which had become beaten down by the rains as hard almost as 

 the road. The dnll sows six rows at a time, eight and ten inches apart, and cultiv"at«s 

 or weeds in the same way. It took perhaps half an hour to sow the seeds, and half au 

 hour each at diiferent times to cultivate or weed them, and perhaps half a day to thin 

 them out ; after that they covered the ground wholly over and needed no more care. 

 The ground was ordinarily rich. With this extreme negligence, I had fifteen wagon 

 loads of the finest beets, being at the rate of over thirty tons to the acre. I sold two 

 and a half tons at $8 j)er ton, fed my cow and calf, two hogs, and three horses, all they 

 would eat all winter, and have three tons more than I can use, though we have used 

 no corn at all for anything but the hogs. I fed cut roots, with a pint of wheat bran 

 each mess. I have never before had my horses, hogs, cow, and calf come through the 

 ■winter so well aud free from all symptoms of disease ; their hair is as smooth and glossy 

 now as though they had just come off from a clover pasture. I conclude that roots, as 

 part feed at least, are worth much more than their simple value as food in the extra 

 health they insure to the animal, and I now intend to raise them on my farms on a 

 larger scale. I had no idea they could be so easily and abundantly produced. I ought 

 to state, however, that it took me more than a week to teach one horse to eat them, 

 and I did not succeed until I boiled one or two of them, aud mashed them in bran and 

 oats so fine that he could not eat one without the other, and after he found it would 

 not iJoisou him, he ate them greedily in the raw state. 



